Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Bill

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Chapter 7
Taxable and other foreign benefits: exemptions
681   Taxable and other foreign benefits: exemptions
     (1)    No liability to income tax arises on a taxable foreign benefit if, or to the extent
that, the corresponding UK benefit is exempt income.
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     (2)    No liability to income tax arises on a benefit which is payable under the law of
a country or territory outside the United Kingdom if it is substantially similar
in character to a United Kingdom social security benefit listed in Table B.
     (3)    In this section—
                    “taxable foreign benefit” means a benefit to which section 678 applies;
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                    “corresponding UK benefit”, in relation to a taxable foreign benefit, means
the taxable benefit listed in Table A to which the foreign benefit is
substantially similar in character (see section 678).
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Chapter 1
Introduction
682   Scope of this Part
     (1)    This Part provides for the assessment, collection and recovery of income tax in
respect of PAYE income.
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     (2)    The provisions of this Part are contained in—
                    this Chapter (which gives the meaning of “PAYE income”),
                    Chapter 2 (PAYE: general),
                    Chapter 3 (PAYE: special types of payer or payee),
                    Chapter 4 (PAYE: special types of income),
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                    Chapter 5 (PAYE settlement agreements), and
                    Chapter 6 (miscellaneous and supplemental).
     (3)    Provision for PAYE regulations is made by Chapters 2 to 6.
683   PAYE income
     (1)    For the purposes of this Act and any other enactment (whenever passed)
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“PAYE income” for a tax year consists of—
           (a)           any PAYE employment income for the year,
           (b)           any PAYE pension income for the year, and
           (c)           any PAYE social security income for the year.
     (2)    “PAYE employment income” for a tax year means income which consists of—
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           (a)           any taxable earnings from an employment in the year (determined in
accordance with section 10(2)), and

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           (b)           any taxable specific income from an employment for the year
(determined in accordance with section 10(3)).
     (3)    “PAYE pension income” for a tax year means, subject to subsection (4), taxable
pension income for the year determined in accordance with any of the
following provisions—
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                    section 571 (United Kingdom pensions),
                    section 578 (United Kingdom social security pensions),
                    section 581 (approved retirement benefits schemes: pensions and
annuities),
                    section 584 (approved retirement benefits schemes: unauthorised
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payments),
                    section 591 (former approved superannuation funds: annuities),
                    section 596 (approved personal pension schemes: annuities),
                    section 599 (approved personal pension schemes: income withdrawals)
                    section 602 (approved personal pension schemes: unauthorised
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payments)
                    section 616 (certain overseas government pensions paid in the United
Kingdom),
                    section 621 (the House of Commons Members’ Fund),
                    section 634 (voluntary annual payments).
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     (4)    “PAYE pension income” does not include any taxable pension income
determined in accordance with section 584 that would not be such income if
section 587 (marine pilots’ benefit fund) were omitted.
     (5)    “PAYE social security income” for a tax year means taxable social security
income for the year determined in accordance with section 658(4) or (5)
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(taxable United Kingdom social security benefits).
Chapter 2
PAYE: General
684   PAYE regulations
     (1)    The Board of Inland Revenue must make regulations (“PAYE regulations”)
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with respect to the assessment, charge, collection and recovery of income tax in
respect of all PAYE income.
     (2)    PAYE regulations may, in particular, include any such provision as is set out
in the following list.

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1.
Provision—

     (a)    for requiring persons making payments of, or on account of,

PAYE income to make, at the time of the payment, deductions

or repayments of income tax calculated by reference to tax

tables prepared by the Board of Inland Revenue, and

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     (b)    for making persons who are required to make any such

deductions or repayments accountable to or, as the case may

be, entitled to repayment from the Board.

2.
Provision for the collection and recovery, whether by deduction from

any PAYE income paid in any later year or otherwise, of income tax

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in respect of any such income which has not been deducted or

otherwise recovered during the year.

3.
Provision for the production to, and inspection by, persons

authorised by the Board of wages sheets and other documents and

records for the purposes of satisfying themselves that income tax has

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been and is being deducted, repaid and accounted for in accordance

with the regulations.

4.
Provision for requiring an employer or former employer to provide

any information, within a prescribed time, about payments or other

benefits provided or to be provided, including those provided or to

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be provided in connection with—

     (a)    the termination of a person’s employment, or

     (b)    a change in the duties of or general earnings from a person’s

employment.

5.
Provision for the way in which any matters provided for by the

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regulations are to be proved.

6.
Provision—

     (a)    for requiring the payment of interest on sums due to the

Board which are not paid by the due date,

     (b)    for determining the date (being not less than 14 days after the

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end of the tax year in respect of which the sums are due) from

which such interest is to be calculated, and

     (c)    for enabling the repayment or remission of such interest.

7.
Provision for requiring the payment of interest on sums due from the

Board and for determining the date from which such interest is to be

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calculated.

8.
Provision for the assessment and charge of income tax in respect of

PAYE income.

9.
Provision for appeals with respect to matters arising under the

regulations which would otherwise not be the subject of an appeal.

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10.
Different provision for different cases or classes of case.

11.
Any incidental, consequential, supplementary and transitional

provision which appears to the Board to be expedient.

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     (3)    The deductions of income tax required to be made by PAYE regulations under
item 1 in the above list may be required to be made at the basic rate or other
rates in such cases or classes of case as may be provided by the regulations.
     (4)    Interest required to be paid by PAYE regulations under item 6 or 7 in the above
list must be paid without any deduction of income tax and may not be taken
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into account in computing any income, profits or losses for any tax purposes.
     (5)    PAYE regulations must not affect any right of appeal to the General or Special
Commissioners which a person would have apart from the regulations.
     (6)    It does not matter for the purposes of PAYE regulations that income is wholly
or partly income for a tax year other than that in which the payment is made.
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     (7)    PAYE regulations have effect despite anything in the Income Tax Acts.
     (8)    In this Act and any other enactment (whenever passed) “PAYE regulations”
means regulations under this section.
685   Tax tables
     (1)    The Board of Inland Revenue must construct tax tables with a view to securing
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that so far as possible—
           (a)           the total income tax payable in respect of PAYE income for any tax year
is deducted from PAYE income paid during that year, and
           (b)           the income tax deductible or repayable on the occasion of any payment
of, or on account of, PAYE income is such that the following
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proportions are the same—
                  (i)                 the proportion which the total net income tax deducted since
the beginning of the tax year bears to the total income tax
payable for the year, and
                  (ii)                the proportion which the part of the tax year which ends with
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the date of the payment bears to the whole year.
     (2)    References in subsection (1) to the total income tax payable for the year are to
be read as references to the total income tax estimated to be payable for the year
in respect of the income in question—
           (a)           subject to a provisional deduction for allowances and reliefs, and
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           (b)           subject, if necessary, to an adjustment for amounts overpaid or
remaining unpaid on account of income tax in respect of PAYE income
for any previous year.
     (3)    For the purpose of estimating the total income tax payable as mentioned in
subsection (1)(a), it may be assumed, in relation to any payment of, or on
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account of, PAYE income, that the following proportions will be the same—
           (a)           the proportion which the income paid in the part of the tax year which
ends with the making of the payment bears to the income for the whole
year, and
           (b)           the proportion which that part of the tax year bears to the whole year.
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686   Meaning of “payment”
     (1)    For the purposes of PAYE regulations, a payment of, or on account of, PAYE
income of a person is treated as made at the earliest of the following times—


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            Rule 1
            The time when the payment is made.

            Rule 2
            The time when the person becomes entitled to the payment.
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            Rule 3
            If the person is a director of a company and the income is income from
employment with the company (whether or not as director), whichever is the
earliest of—
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           (a)           the time when sums on account of the income are credited in the
company’s accounts or records (whether or not there is any restriction
on the right to draw the sums);
           (b)           if the amount of the income for a period is determined before the period
ends, the time when the period ends;
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           (c)           if the amount of the income for a period is not determined until after
the period has ended, the time when the amount is determined.
     (2)    Rule 3 applies if the person is a director of the company at any time in the tax
year in which the time mentioned falls.
     (3)    In this section “director” means—
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           (a)           in relation to a company whose affairs are managed by a board of
directors or similar body, a member of that board or body,
           (b)           in relation to a company whose affairs are managed by a single director
or other person, that director or person, and
           (c)           in relation to a company whose affairs are managed by the members
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themselves, a member of the company,
            and includes any person in accordance with whose directions or instructions
the company’s directors (as defined above) are accustomed to act.
     (4)    For the purposes of subsection (3) a person is not regarded as a person in
accordance with whose directions or instructions the company’s directors are
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accustomed to act merely because the directors act on advice given by that
person in a professional capacity.
Chapter 3
PAYE: Special types of payer or payee
687   Payments by intermediary
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     (1)    If any payment of, or on account of, PAYE income of an employee is made by
an intermediary of the employer, the employer is to be treated, for the purposes
of PAYE regulations, as making a payment of the income of an amount equal
to the amount given by subsection (3).
     (2)    Subsection (1) does not apply if the intermediary (whether or not a person to
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whom PAYE regulations apply) deducts income tax from the payment the
intermediary makes, and accounts for it, in accordance with PAYE regulations.
     (3)    The amount referred to is—
           (a)           if the amount of the payment made by the intermediary is an amount
to which the recipient is entitled after deduction of income tax, the
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           (a)           aggregate of the amount of the payment and the amount of any income
tax due, and
           (b)           in any other case, the amount of the payment.
     (4)    For the purposes of this section, a payment of, or on account of, PAYE income
of an employee is made by an intermediary of the employer if it is made—
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           (a)           by a person acting on behalf of the employer and at the expense of the
employer or a person connected with the employer, or
           (b)           by trustees holding property for any persons who include or class of
persons which includes the employee.
688   Agency workers
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     (1)    If the remuneration receivable by an individual under or in consequence of any
contract falls to be treated under section 44 (agency workers) as earnings from
an employment, the relevant provisions have effect as if the individual held the
employment with or under the agency.
     (2)    If—
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           (a)           the remuneration receivable by an individual under or in consequence
of any contract falls to be so treated under section 44, and
           (b)           a payment of, or on account of, PAYE income of the individual is made
by a person acting on behalf of the client, and at the expense of the client
or a person connected with the client,
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            section 687 and, in relation to any payment treated as made by the client under
section 687, section 710 have effect in relation to the payment as if the client and
not the agency were the employer for the purposes of the relevant provisions.
     (3)    In subsections (1) and (2)—
                    “the agency” and “the client” have the same meanings as in section 44;
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                    “the relevant provisions” means this Chapter except section 691, Chapter
4 of this Part and section 710.
689   Employee of non-UK employer
     (1)    This section applies if—
           (a)           an employee during any period works for a person (“the relevant
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person”) who is not the employer of the employee;
           (b)           any payment of, or on account of, PAYE income of the employee in
respect of that period is made by a person who is the employer or an
intermediary of the employer or of the relevant person;
           (c)           PAYE regulations do not apply to the person making the payment or,
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if that person makes the payment as an intermediary of the employer
or of the relevant person, the employer; and
           (d)           income tax is not deducted, or not accounted for, in accordance with the
regulations by the person making the payment or, if that person makes
the payment as an intermediary of the employer or of the relevant
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person, the employer.
     (2)    The relevant person is to be treated, for the purposes of PAYE regulations, as
making a payment of PAYE income of the employee of an amount equal to the
amount given by subsection (3).
     (3)    The amount referred to is—
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           (a)           if the amount of the payment actually made is an amount to which the
recipient is entitled after deduction of income tax, the aggregate of the
amount of the payment and the amount of any income tax due, and
           (b)           in any other case, the amount of the payment.
     (4)    If, by virtue of any of sections 693 to 700, an employer would be treated for the
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purposes of PAYE regulations (if they applied to the employer) as making a
payment of any amount to an employee, this section has effect as if—
           (a)           the employer were also to be treated for the purposes of this section as
making an actual payment of that amount, and
           (b)           paragraph (a) of subsection (3) were omitted.
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     (5)    For the purposes of this section, a payment of, or on account of, PAYE income
of an employee is made by an intermediary of the employer or of the relevant
person if it is made—
           (a)           by a person acting on behalf of the employer or the relevant person and
at the expense of the employer or the relevant person or a person
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connected with the employer or the relevant person, or
           (b)           by trustees holding property for any persons who include or class of
persons which includes the employee.
     (6)    In this section and sections 690 and 691 “work”, in relation to an employee,
means the performance of any duties of the employment of the employee and
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any reference to the employee’s working is to be read accordingly.
690   Employee non-resident etc.
     (1)    This section applies in relation to an employee in a tax year only if the
employee—
           (a)           is not resident or, if resident, not ordinarily resident in the United
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Kingdom, and
           (b)           works or will work in the United Kingdom and also works or is likely
to work outside the United Kingdom.
     (2)    If in relation to an employee to whom this section applies and any tax year it
appears to the Inland Revenue that—
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           (a)           some of the income paid to the employee by the employer is PAYE
income, but
           (b)           some of that income may not be PAYE income,
            the Inland Revenue may, on an application made by the appropriate person,
give a direction for determining a proportion of any payment made in that year
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of, or on account of, income of the employee which is to be treated as PAYE
income.
     (3)    In this section—
           (a)           “the appropriate person” means the person designated by the employer
for the purposes of this section and, if no person is so designated, the
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employer, and
           (b)           any reference to a payment made by the employer includes a reference
to a payment made by a person acting on behalf of the employer and at
the expense of the employer or a person connected with the employer.
     (4)    An application under subsection (2) must provide such information as is
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available and is relevant to the application.



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